26 Jan 1925
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Newspaper
Albany Despatch
Location
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 26, 1925
Page
1
A miscellany of domestic guidance on fruit salads served in tall glasses, jam making with rhubarb and apple, and drying grated cheese. It also surveys fashion trends including yokes, sleeves, lipstick, patches, over-blouses, and the new Eton Clip hairstyle. A tomato sauce recipe with garlic and spices is provided for long keeping.
Advertised sale items include frocks in Magyar and Zephyr styles with cash specials, two piece woollen bathers, imitation wool garments, and smart millinery. Accessories cover shopping bags, silk ribbons, lace, gloves, stockings, and Banner silk hose with varied colors, prices, and bundles across a broad array of ladies' wear.
An old advertisement lists bargains on men and boys clothing including untearable tweed trousers eight shillings eleven pence per pair and fine serge three garment suits five pounds ten shillings and fourpence. Also featured are Boys cotton tweed summer suits priced twelve shillings and knickers two shillings eleven pence per pair plus wool bathers and various shirts socks and undergarments at special prices.
A Manchester department store lists low priced linens towels mats and fabrics. Highlights include Horrockses 12/6 per dozen lace edged duchess voile, Beach Wrap towels 3/6, Christys brown towels 1/11 yard, double bed unbleached herringbone twill 2/8 yard, sea grass mats 2/6 each. Includes 45 by 20 bathing towel note few left.
Advertises a broad summer sale with discounted garments and fabrics. Includes boys and men’s suits, shirts, trousers, hats, towels, cloths, veils, corsets, and millinery with bold price cuts and limited stock. Highlights untearable overalls, Hollins twill fabrics, and striped tunic shirts.
Fragmented OCR text shows a mix of admonitions about smoking at dances and a garbled timetable for a Denmar Line schedule. Names, places, and times are partially legible with no clear events or outcomes. The piece lacks a coherent narrative or complete details.
A reader criticizes council plans to remove a public telephone from the Nebula shelter repurposed as an ambulance shelter. The letter argues the ambulance brigade gear has long occupied the site and fears dismantling the shelter harms emergency relief. The writer urges protection of the ambulance facility and its access for relief efforts.
A reader asks for total annual cost of nightsoil and rubbish removal after a health board contractor was allowed to raise prices. The letter notes variability in charges seen by neighbors and reports town hall figures: fivepence per pan for nightsoil and two pence for rubbish, totaling about 2 shillings 9 pence per month when paid monthly, or 2 shillings 6 pence for four weeks.
A correspondent voices concern over widespread smoking by young men and women at local dances. He notes cigarette sparks on dresses and floors, urges explicit smoking notices in public halls, and asks organizers to enforce restrictions to protect guests and decorum.
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